Today is officially the start of my time with 2nd Infantry Division (2ID). Off goes my old 214th patch, on comes the giant Indian head. I'm not the only one in the family with this patch, as my younger brother was stationed at Fort Lewis for a few years (and deployed with them). He recently got orders to go to Camp Casey, where he'll only be about a mile from where I'll be.

So last night I couldn't sleep and was tossing and turning. About midnight I noticed it was super bright outside because of the full moon and pulled out the camera. Played aounrd with colored lighting, but I felt the light source wasn't bright enough. Any feed back good or bad is welcomed.

Didn't have too much time today to get out and look for something to shoot, but I knew that I at least wanted to shoot this picture sometime during my stay at Camp Casey. When I pulled my camera out, the lens cap was off and since it's so humid here, my lens was pretty fogged up. I edited it in Photoshop to give it that vintage look, since M.A.S.H. was based here.

@SilenceBrokenTT, much respect for that patch. My father wore one in those very same hills 60 years ago lobbing artillery at bad guys.
Snapped this when I had the Tokina 11-16mm F2.8. Sold it because it stayed in the bag too much and thinking I'd eventually go FX. Now I miss the lens and also think I don't really need FX. Go figure.

I like your storm Tao.
You took that with a flash Rx4? Or you did the dynamic-range in PP?
Focus-stack mikeo? Nice shot.

I came accross some trees that suffered a fire quite some time ago. The color of the tree and surrounding is natural even if it look like a sepia filter or something. I only darken the sky in PP for a more dramatic effect. There is a funny halo around the tree right side against the sky that look like an HDR effect while no HDR was used, no idea what causes it. A few more will follow.

@Pierre, no flash used. The sun was directly behind the top of the tree so I simply used the brighten feature in post on the upper most part of the tree trunk. Also changed the color temperature a bit and sharpened.